I'm planning to build a "lab" of perhaps 15 freebsd machines.
Not only do I want to be a good sysadmin and only download what I need,
but another issue is that these machines will live on a network that
will not have a reliable connection to the internet.
Therefore I want to build a mirror of parts of ftp.freebsd.org so that
the lead machine (for each of 2 architectures) can build packages for
the other machines to install.
I think that if I mirror:
ports/distfiles
releases/<arch>/<version>-RELEASE
then I think I will be able to install FreeBSD on each machine and build
packages of anything from ports that I want to install on all the
machines. And then for each individual machine set PKG_PATH to be the
nfs served location from the main server.
Therefore to make my mirror, I have a rsync filter file that looks
something like this:
+ /ports/
+ /ports/distfiles/
+ /ports/distfiles/*
+ /releases/
+ /releases/i386/
+ /releases/i386/7.2-RELEASE/
+ /releases/i386/7.2-RELEASE/*
+ /releases/i386/7.2-RELEASE/base/
+ /releases/i386/7.2-RELEASE/base/*
etc.
- *
Hopefully, someone can give me confidence that this is a reasonable
plan? Or am I going about this wrongheadedly?
I have a question:
Q. ports/distfiles contains tarballs of multiple versions of each
software; I assume that I only need one version of each tarball. And
since this mirror as described comes to ~100GiB, how can I modify my
rsync filter so I don't get anything more than either the latest tarball
for each software package in distfiles or whichever version accords to
the Makefiles provided by ports.tgz
Hopefully some of this detail will be of help to someone else in a
similar position.
--
Duncan Hutty
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